Climate Town

In this episode, Rollie overuses a 80's screwball comedy he hasn't seen as a metaphor to talk about how coal plants are being needlessly kept open thanks to political interests (and how solar is cheaper, more effective and better for the planet) as well as debunking the myth of 'clean coal'.

In this episode, Rollie makes a sincere apology to the fine members of Women For Nature Gas... except they are actually stock images and stolen profile pictures as part of an massive astroturfing campaign, funded by special interest groups and energy companies. And unfortunately, in states like California and Arizona, their tactics actually work.

In this episode, Rollie examines how food safety dates came to be, how they started as a tool for consumers against making sure your food wasn't laced with poison, to how the meaningless guesswork that goes into them now is sadly responsible for a ridiculous amount of food waste.

In this episode Rollie, in collaboration with Jason Slaughter of Not Just Bikes, takes on Minimum Parking Requirement laws, a set of archaic and seemingly arbitrary rules going back over 70 years that turn a ridiculous amount of open land and wasted resources into massive parking lots that are often left unused. However, in cities like Hartford, Buffalo, and Pittsburgh, progress is happening to change that.

2-4-6-8 Oil Money Isn't Great!

DON’T TAKE THE DEAL!

Oil uplift is back on the menu!